Warners
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I couldn't wait to try my 44 Magnum reloads, since I've been talking about them for a couple days. I just got the Super Redhawk yesterday and mounted the Burris 2x scope last night and took 5 minutes to laser bore sight it in before heading to the range tonight. To recap, my loads are 240 grain Hornady XTP's over 24 grains of W296/H110, seated to 1.600 inches OAL. Yes, that is listed on Hodgdon's site as the max load. It was stout recoil and noise, but didn't seem abusive at all. I shot 50 rounds comfortably. Compared to shooting the 500 magnum a few weeks ago, where I shot 2 rounds, set it down and said, "I'm glad I can say that I shot that, but it's really not for me". Haha.
So from a reloading standpoint, all of my rounds fired as expected. No flattened primers, and they ejected from the cylinder freely - no stickiness or stubborn ejection at all. Good news. Of course, 24 grains of powder in those loads definitely gets some attention. I told the young couple next to me that it was about to get loud in there so they weren't surprised by it.
From a shooting standpoint, I couldn't be happier with the gun and my choice to sell my AK and ammo to buy the Super Redhawk and Burris scope. I broke even on the deal which is a huge win in my book (also had enough scratch left over to buy dies and reloading components to make up about 400 loads). With the 7 1/2" barrel and scope, the gun is pretty hefty which I'm sure soaks up a lot of the recoil. After a few cylinders, I learned (forced myself) to adjust to it and not flinch. All together, I shot 50 rounds through it. This was the first time shooting the gun, and had just bore sighted the scope in, so there will be some tweaking and getting used to it. This was one of my better 6 round groups at 35 feet:
Warner
So from a reloading standpoint, all of my rounds fired as expected. No flattened primers, and they ejected from the cylinder freely - no stickiness or stubborn ejection at all. Good news. Of course, 24 grains of powder in those loads definitely gets some attention. I told the young couple next to me that it was about to get loud in there so they weren't surprised by it.
From a shooting standpoint, I couldn't be happier with the gun and my choice to sell my AK and ammo to buy the Super Redhawk and Burris scope. I broke even on the deal which is a huge win in my book (also had enough scratch left over to buy dies and reloading components to make up about 400 loads). With the 7 1/2" barrel and scope, the gun is pretty hefty which I'm sure soaks up a lot of the recoil. After a few cylinders, I learned (forced myself) to adjust to it and not flinch. All together, I shot 50 rounds through it. This was the first time shooting the gun, and had just bore sighted the scope in, so there will be some tweaking and getting used to it. This was one of my better 6 round groups at 35 feet:
Warner